Among many answers, there was one proposing the use of memberships to sell products.
The membership itself is also something that you might sell.
Something like magazine subscriptions.
But it’s not always about money.
This idea of a membership-only site raised more questions in my mind.
How difficult it is to build your own membership-only site?
Is it even possible for common people like us?
What about the security issue?
Actually, any Wordpress blog is already some kind of members-only site.
But a plugin specifically built to handle membership will surely enhance the functions.
So I go to one of myexperimental Wordpress blogsand do a quick search for a good membership plugin.
I launched the plugin page and smack the “Add New” button.
you might also use the “Add New” link from the plugin sidebar.
Enter the name into the search field:
And you will go directly to the plugin.
hit the “Install” link at the right of the box.
smack the “Install Now” button in the lightbox confirmation window.
c’mon note that s2Member plugin is tested to work with Wordpress version 2.9.2 and above.
Use it under lower version of Wordpress at your own risk.
And it also requires PHP version 5.2 or higher.
After the installation, poke the “Activate Plugin” link at the lower part of the notification.
And I personally think that you should at least take a peek at the extensive guide.
The plugins has tons of controls that you could customize to shape your site to near perfection.
it’s possible for you to dive into the configs from s2Member sidebar.
After the page is set, go to the plugin’s General Options.
kick off the “Membership Options Page” and choose the page that you’ve just created.
The generated PayPal button should be placed in the page that you use as “Membership Option Page”.
We will cover more advanced parameters of the membership site in the next discussion.
